Thirty-eight Big Things still stand, and one straight-line loop can touch every state and territory

Built from 940 attraction-level rows extracted in a live web scan on 27 August 2026, deduplicated to 38 named, standing Big Things across all 8 Australian states and territories, plus 3 that have closed. No source page stated exact coordinates, so every marker sits at its locality’s approximate position, joined by a nearest-neighbour straight-line route.

Marker numbers show route order, starting at the Big Prawn in Exmouth. Colour means state or territory:

The tradition began in the 1960s with the Big Scotsman (1962, Medindie), the Big Banana (1964, Coffs Harbour) and the Big Murray Cod (1968, Tocumwal) — all three still stand on this map. theconversation.com

Not every Big Thing survives: the Big Wool Bales in Hamilton (closed 2020), the Giant Gippsland Earth Worm in Bass (closed 2020) and the Big Cask Wine in Mourquong (closed 2012) are excluded from the route and listed separately below. theconversation.com

The category is still growing: the Big Watermelon in Chinchilla went up in 2018, and Carnamah’s Big Tractor opened in 2024 after organisers raised more than $600,000. theconversation.com

Big Things now appear on Australia Post coins covering every state and territory, including the Big Jumping Crocodile in Wak Wak, the Big Lobster in Kingston and the Giant Ram in Wagin. southernhighlandnews.com.au

Route list — every mapped attraction, in visiting order

Order	Attraction	Locality	State	Status in source	Source

Source: 940 attraction-level rows extracted from a live web scan of public travel guides, encyclopaedia pages and news articles on 2026-08-27 — the only dataset behind this page. Rows without a named attraction were omitted; obvious repeats of the same attraction in the same locality were deduplicated to 38 standing attractions and 3 closed ones (the Big Pineapple appears in sources at both Woombye and neighbouring Nambour and is shown once, at Woombye; the Big Merino at Goulburn appears only in rows without a usable name–locality pair and is not mapped). No source row carried exact coordinates, so every marker is a locality-level approximation. The connecting path is a nearest-neighbour straight-line (great-circle) heuristic starting at Exmouth — not an optimal travelling-salesperson tour, a driving route, or a measured distance; “all” Big Things means all that this scan could discover: the category has no authoritative national registry and source lists overlap heavily.